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May, 2010

Every year I plant basil and every year it sulks, puts on little growth and runs to flower. Every year but one.

Back in the mid-90s I had 3 glorious basil plants out by the sidewalk. One day I went out and something was clearly wrong with the garden, but it took me a minute to figure out what. One of my basil plants was missing. Someone had literally uprooted one and made off with it. Basil bandits. Read the rest of this entry →

There is a mite that lives on the follicles of your eyebrows. Okay, a mite is not an insect but that line is an attention getter and I couldn’t make the title, “Appreciating arthropods”. Anyway, for most people a mite, or termite, or beetle, or ant are all just bugs. (They’d be wrong. The last 3 are insects but not bugs and the first is neither – a story for another post.)